There are lots of theories about what names do to us.  The trends in the naming of babies also say things about what is happening in our culture ( Read more... )

...is worth overdoing. That was their mantra.

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Eventually all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
--Norman Maclean

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(I'm in the sparkly red helmet and antique yellow boat, with yellow blades on my paddle.)
( notes )

( notes on a rough river day )

It's still raining. The roof hasn't started leaking yet, but the puddles are headed for knee deep and traffic is crawling. My new boots which were advertised as waterproof are definitely not. One black mark for Timberland and one for Imelda's. When you tell me it's waterproof, I expect it to be waterproof.

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There's an older husky living here who is on 3 meds. She's on metacam/meloxicam which is an NSAID, for her arthritis. She's on levothyroxine (synthetic T4). And she's on DES (diethyl stilbestrol), yes, the same one that they used to give pregnant women that ended up causing all sorts of malformations in their offspring. DES is used in canines ( Read more... )

I should have written down my dream this morning. It was a vivid one, and my grandmother was in it. This evening as I think back on it, I don't know that I have ever dreamed about my grandmother before. What I can remember about the dream:
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Here's a photo of a typical river camp along the section of the San Juan where we were. Imagine however that the area that they are camped on is under 10 feet of roiling fast brown water, and you'll have an idea what it looked like that day in May. And we were in little playful whitewater kayaks, not rubber barges.

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